Connecticut Statutes
§ 12-68 — Grantee failing to record deed, grantor taxed. Damages.
Connecticut § 12-68
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Bluebook
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 12-68 (2026).
Text
When, in consequence of the failure of the purchaser of any real estate or any interest therein to place on the land records of the town in which such real estate is situated the deed or other instrument of conveyance by which such estate or interest therein has been conveyed to him and under which he holds the same, such real estate or interest therein has been set for taxation in the list of such purchaser's grantor and any lawful tax has been assessed thereon against such grantor and has been paid by him, a right of action shall accrue to such grantor to recover from such purchaser as damages a sum double the amount of such payment.
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Legislative History
(1949 Rev., S. 1742.) Liens for water charges not within statute. 11 CS 454.
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Bluebook (online)
Connecticut § 12-68, Counsel Stack Legal Research, https://law.counselstack.com/statute/ct/12-68.